LIVE LOVE TRAVEL DREAM

“Live From Your Heart, Follow Your Dreams”

“TRAVEL LIGHT,
LIVE LIGHT,
SPREAD THE LIGHT,
BE THE LIGHT.”

~Yogi Bhajan

We met in late 2011 at our home yoga studio in Grand Rapids, Michigan. We knew immediately that we wanted to explore the world, life, and love together. In February 2012, just 5 months after meeting, we departed to discover Australia. We spent a year traveling Australia, driving 20,000 kilometers in our camper van that we converted ourselves. In February 2013 we set out to backpack South East Asia, visiting Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, and Myanmar before returning home in April 2013.

After, we began following another one of our dreams… converting a schoolbus into a traveling tiny home, and traveled North America. After time spent living and traveling in three different roaming vehicle/homes, we have decided to “upgrade” to the space of a schoolbus. Simplifying our lifestyle allows us the freedom to pursue our dreams. While doing this, we hope to lower our impact as much as possible, through modifications such as our Waste Vegetable Oil conversion and our future Solar Power.

At the present moment, we are traveling throughout Indonesia, from June – September 2016

This site is our story, and we hope it inspires YOU to live from your heart and follow your dreams.

We’re often asked how we afford to travel for long stretches of time. We are asked by family, friends, strangers, etc. The number one answer is we live simply! We buy used clothes (and other necessities) at thrift stores. @e don’t buy things we don’t need. No cigarettes, no other intoxicants and very rarely a nice microbrew (like one every couple months!). We live a cash lifestyle and do not have credit cards or any debt other than my student loans. We cook our own food when we’re at home and we scope out the cheapest local eats when we’re traveling overseas. After 7 years of travel and record keeping, we very consistently stay within a $5-$7/day per person food budget. We’ve managed to keep this budget and still live healthy in the US, Australia (which has very high food costs), SE Asia, Africa, and now… it seems to be following suit in Indonesia. We live in a schoolbus at home and cheap guesthouses/homestays abroad. Our important things we look for in a place is clean, secure, and quiet. We don’t need flashy… and it helps us to afford to explore the world. I used to think that one needed to be wealthy to travel. But a simple book changed this all for me about 12 years ago… Vagabonding by Rolf Potts. If you ever wanted to travel to the far stretches of the world, I highly recommend this book. Not everyone has the circumstances to travel. I won’t come out and say that everyone can travel because the fact is… it’s not true. However, most people who live in wealthier places like the US, Europe, Australia, etc. can travel… even if you have comparatively little monetary wealth in your own country. We’ve met people of all walks of life traveling… older, younger, families with one or many children, etc. Some simple rearranging of priorities and some time to save money can allow you the trip of your dreams… but stay away from those resorts! The cost of a week at a lush resort can afford us a month or two of budget travel. We hope our travels inspire you to get to know your neighbors in this world. As the world grows smaller and we begin to know those who are foreign to us, our hearts become bigger and we care more about the well-being of all others!